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The 10 Commandments of Typography Valentine Proust is Creative Director at Fontyou, a Paris-based online co-creation platform dedicated to typography. This post originally appeared on the Fontyou blog, and has been adapted with permission. With millions of beautiful typefaces scattering the Web, we felt it was time to lay down the rules on what makes typography great, and how to use them effectively. 1. There are so many font families with several weights and styles, so why do some of you insist on bolding manually? If you need something bold or light, choose a font with several weight. The same rule goes for widths. If you didn’t know, a real small cap has a specific design, it’s not only an uppercase which have been reduced. 2. Ideally, combine two fonts, (okay, a maximum of three) and enjoy all their styles and variations to create contrasts. For example, choose a serif font and a sans serif font and play with weights, italics, small caps etc. 3. Too short: Too long: 4. 5. The ellipsis is not the same as “dot dot dot”!
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